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Northern Irish Society in the Wake of Brexit

by Agnès Maillot, 7 June

Since the 2016 referendum, Brexit has dominated the political conversation in Northern Ireland, launching a debate on the...
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The Power of Billionaire Philanthropy in World Politics

by Peter Hägel, 10 May

At a time when billionaires are being targeted by conspiracy theories, what is the actual power of philanthropic billionaires...
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The Anthropocene: a Challenge for Agriculture

by Bertrand Valiorgue, 19 April

What will farming look like in the future? Will there still be room for agriculture? What is certain is that the time has...

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Protest Music in the Age of Trump

by Ron Eyerman, 25 April 2019

The presidential election campaign and the unexpected election of Donald Trump was cause for immediate reaction from the...
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Elon Musk: the High-Stakes Gambler of Technological Capitalism

by Arnaud Saint-Martin, 14 March 2019

The career path of SpaceX’s CEO traces the contours of new technological capitalism. While Elon Musk is often hailed as a...
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The ‘Animal Cause’ and the Social Sciences

by Jérôme Michalon, 11 February 2019

From anthropocentrism to zoocentrism
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Towards an Ecological Cinema

by Olivier Dorlin, 23 January 2019

Hollywood cinema tends to represent climate change in catastrophist and sensationalistic movies. By contrast, a new type of...
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Ending the Anthropocene

by Claire Sagan, 22 January 2019

Predictive models in ecology generally assume that capitalism will be maintained. However, as Claire Sagan argues, adapting...
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Corporate Responsibility in the Climate Crisis

by Swann Bommier & Cécile Renouard, 21 January 2019

The climate crisis demands that corporations be envisioned as “commons”, and that they serve the protection of the material and...
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Logistical Meanderings

by Carlotta Benvegnù & David Gaborieau, 7 January 2019

When Working Class Mobility Transits Through the Warehouse
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The Bitcoin El Dorado

by Ludovic Desmedt & Odile Lakomski-Laguerre, 27 December 2018

Conceived by its inventors as the basis of a new monetary order, Bitcoin seems to have been overtaken by finance and become...
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Ireland’s Silences: the Magdalene Laundries

by Nathalie Sebbane, 24 December 2018

Thanks to the success of Peter Mullan’s film The Magdalene Sisters, Magdalene laundries—institutions meant to punish Ireland’s...
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The color of France’s “yellow vests”

by Aurélien Delpirou, 17 December 2018

Jacquerie, revolt of the peripheries, or revenge of the working class? The initial analysis of the “yellow vest” (gilets...
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The Price of the Planet

by Nicolas Bouleau, 12 December 2018

By setting the prices of raw materials, financial markets influence our relation to the environment. Nicolas Bouleau examines...
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Do Philanthropists Actually Love the Planet?

by Edouard Morena, 11 December 2018

Capitalism, climate change and philanthropy
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The Unlikely State of Climate Justice

by Geoff Mann & Joel Wainwright, 10 December 2018

Can we rely on national governments to tackle climate change? Is a green capitalist state possible? For Geoff Mann and Joel...
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What Non-Demand Demands

by Philippe Warin, 3 December 2018

On the non-take-up of social welfare
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The Social Diplomacy of Multinational Corporations

by Marieke Louis, 19 November 2018

Just as an international treaty on the social responsibility of multinational corporations is being negotiated at the United...
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Forcing Vaccine Progress

by Oumy Thiongane, 8 November 2018

Financial interests and health policies in the Philippines
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How Oracles Are Forged

by François Héran, 5 November 2018

The prophecy of an African scramble for Europe
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Prisoners on Strike in the United States

by Joël Charbit & Gwenola Ricordeau, 15 October 2018

The Unionization Strategy Put to the Test
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LGBT: Chinese and Online

by Tao Hong & Lucas Monteil, 11 October 2018

After surfacing in the 1990s, the LGBT movement has continued to take hold in China, despite the new Chinese leadership’s...
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The Almost Perfect Baby

by Jean-Hugues Déchaux, 17 September 2018

Genetics, reproduction, and eugenics
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Where Does the Left Stand in India?

by Jules Naudet & Stéphanie Tawa-Lama Rewal, 10 September 2018

In India as in Europe, the left wing is struggling. Looking beyond the financialisation of the economy and disparities in...
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Mary Douglas, A Taste for Hierarchy

by François Buton & Eric Soriano, 9 July 2018

Though poorly known in France, the work of the anthropologist Mary Douglas is nonetheless essential for understanding the...
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Some Kind of Pope

by Anthony Favier, 18 June 2018

On the 5th anniversary of Pope Francis’ election to the throne of St. Peter, Anthony Favier reflects on the career path and...
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Non-replicable

by Aurélien Allard, 28 May 2018

The methodological crisis in experimental science
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Narcotic Addiction in America

by Irène Delcourt, 30 April 2018

In the midst of the recent “opioids crisis”, President Trump has vowed to carry on the war on drugs. Yet the problem of...
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The New German Far Right

by Élisa Goudin, 9 April 2018

The recent rise of the far right has disrupted the political balance in Germany. Its racism illustrates the failings of both...
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Politics on Display

by Jinrui Xi, 5 April 2018

What happens when the curtain is briefly lifted on Chinese opaque politics? This article examines the importance and...
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The Islam of Converts

by Juliette Galonnier, 2 April 2018

The religious convert is a figure of fear and fascination today. Looking beyond clichés, Juliette Galonnier’s investigation in...
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The Bikini Strategy

by Jennifer Bidet, 29 March 2018

Gender and Class Relations in Algeria
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Cow Terrorism

by Mathieu Ferry, 26 March 2018

The sacredness of the cow and the religious proscription against the consumption of beef were invented as late as the...
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Rethinking Odious Debt

by Pierre Pénet, 19 March 2018

The doctrine of ‘odious debt’ has often been invoked to call for the cancellation of debts in very specific and complex...
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Ronald Coase: A Century of Economics

by Élodie Bertrand, 8 March 2018

Ronald Coase (1910-2013), the 1991 Nobel Laureate in Economics, is famous for his oft-quoted and just as often misunderstood...
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Denouncing Denigration

by Abigail Saguy, 27 February 2018

#metoo and #balancetonporc
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How to Live in a Hostile World

by Michal Kozlowski, 22 February 2018

On the Polish Paradox
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Miguel Abensour: Emancipation through Utopia

by Nicolas Poirier, 8 February 2018

Miguel Abensour profoundly renewed thinking about democracy. His political philosophy paid close attention to the desire for...
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Michel Chevalier: Visionary of Modern Europe?

by Michael Drolet, 29 January 2018

Leading 19th century statesman, political economist, architect of the 1860 commercial treaty between France and the United...
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Heaven for Hull?

by Yann Béliard, 25 January 2018

From “crap town” to UK City of Culture 2017
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Personifying the Whanganui River

by Hal Levine, 21 December 2017

Ecological Solution or Political Stratagem?
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Françoise Héritier’s Activist Structuralism

by Salvatore D’Onofrio, 20 November 2017

By asserting that structuralism is a fruitful approach to kinship relations or the difference between the sexes, Françoise...
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Hyperincarcerated

by Adèle Momméja, 6 November 2017

Can journalism advance knowledge in the field of social science? Two investigations published by the New York Times have...

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